The Iran Hostage crisis which began during Jimmy Carter's presidency ended the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Pearl Harbor naval base was established, and Martin Luther King Day was declared a holiday in most states in This Day in History video.n November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.
Technically speaking, botanists classify the coconut as a drupe, not a nut. A drupe is a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard-shelled stone or seed and composed of an outer, middle, and inner layer. While a nut is a dry fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell.
No, a pineapple is not an apple. A pineapple is a large yellowish fruit (a collection of berries) that is encased in a hard skin. It grows from a bush (a bromeliad), not on a â¦ tree. The name pineapple was originally the name for pinecones, and the fruit's hard petals give it a pinecone-like appearance.he name pineapple was originally applied to what we know as pinecones. When Europeans first encountered the fruit, the hard petals around it reminded them of a pinecone (pineapple), and the name stuck.